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matrixrefugeeDid I scare yah? Heh, heh, heh...
I'm in the process of downloading/installing Trillian, and my dad is getting the fire going outside for our Hallowe'en cookout. We did this last year and had an utter blast, so we're doing it again this year. I've got the CD player ready with a few spooky music CD's: the "Fright Night" classical collection, featuring old standards like "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Seans and Moussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain", among others, and -- yep -- the soundtrack to "Constantine".
Speaking of the snarky demon hunter... I ran out of salt when I went to seal off the graveyard, but I'd found evidence that the nut who's messing with the graveyard magic(k) had gotten there before I did: I found something like a rosary made of seashells draped over the same tombstone that had the bells on it last year. Anyone know what the significance of *that* would be? So I made sure I spread plenty of salt around that particular stone, in case anything nasty happened to be lurking there. Add to the fact that I was doing this at dusk on Hallowe'en: Major creep factor there, but I wasn't scared.
And for some wierd reason -- probably Fundies -- no one in the front end at work was in costume. Bummer. It's been all over the news that some school in Newton, MA had to cancel Hallowe'en because of some fundie types who were down on Hallowe'en and didn't want their kids exposed to it; what's worse, the pro-Hallowe'en families didn't get their say in the matter either. I think if it had been me, I'd have protested by letting my kids go to school with their costumes on anyway, but then again, we know I'm a little bit of an anarchist in a good way.
I'm in the process of downloading/installing Trillian, and my dad is getting the fire going outside for our Hallowe'en cookout. We did this last year and had an utter blast, so we're doing it again this year. I've got the CD player ready with a few spooky music CD's: the "Fright Night" classical collection, featuring old standards like "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Seans and Moussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain", among others, and -- yep -- the soundtrack to "Constantine".
Speaking of the snarky demon hunter... I ran out of salt when I went to seal off the graveyard, but I'd found evidence that the nut who's messing with the graveyard magic(k) had gotten there before I did: I found something like a rosary made of seashells draped over the same tombstone that had the bells on it last year. Anyone know what the significance of *that* would be? So I made sure I spread plenty of salt around that particular stone, in case anything nasty happened to be lurking there. Add to the fact that I was doing this at dusk on Hallowe'en: Major creep factor there, but I wasn't scared.
And for some wierd reason -- probably Fundies -- no one in the front end at work was in costume. Bummer. It's been all over the news that some school in Newton, MA had to cancel Hallowe'en because of some fundie types who were down on Hallowe'en and didn't want their kids exposed to it; what's worse, the pro-Hallowe'en families didn't get their say in the matter either. I think if it had been me, I'd have protested by letting my kids go to school with their costumes on anyway, but then again, we know I'm a little bit of an anarchist in a good way.
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Date: 2005-11-01 09:23 pm (UTC)You know, that might be a Wiccan/Pagan tribute to their beloved dead. It certainly sounds like something I'd do in similar circumstances. In which case, are you "cursing" THEIR perfectly legitimate custom of honoring a lost loved one?
If I may make a suggestion -- next time you come across this, instead of instantly thinking it's a "nut", consider that it might be someone else's act of remembrance and if you must cleanse the area, at least be respectful of their intent. ;-)
Not meaning to jump on you -- just pointing out that different people have different ways of approaching this time of year, and ARE entitled to leave whatever memorials they consider appropriate on the graves of family and friends.